ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,374, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc. (Osaka, Japan).

"Pre-rendering system" was invented by Neil-Paul Payoyo Bermundo (Glendora, Calif.) and Mohamed Al Sayed Mostafa (Hawthorne, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pre-rendering prior receiving a command to print is disclosed for a pre-rendering system. In an apparatus therefor, a print engine is in communication with and hosts the pre-rendering system. The pre-rendering system is configured to receive a print job in a page description language. An image processor is configured to pre-render the print job to provide a pre-rendered document image."...